Hard-working and intelligent, the Korean ethnic group lives in Northeast China. They wear brightly colored and uniquely styled clothes and adhere to distinctive customs about eating habits, sacrificial rituals and funeral ceremonies. In particular, they have built many unique residences which show their customs and culture clearly.

Residences of Korean ethnic group

Villages and Culture

Most people of Korean ethnic group inhabit Jilin, Liaoning and Heilongjiang provinces. In the areas above, particularly Yanbian region, they have developed farming, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline occupation and fisheries. Yanbian region is known as a land of rice and a production spot for flue-cured tobacco. Yanbian cattle are regarded as one of the top five improved yellow cattle breeds in China. Both ginseng and pilose antler in Yanbian region are famous at home and abroad.

Their villages are mostly located on flat land near mountains. In their villages, dwellings have a style of their own - a roof with a slope on all four sides, a house partitioned with wooden boards, rooms opening onto the doorway, a brick or stone bed at floor level and a fire way under the bed.

Most of the villages of Korean ethnic group in Yanbian region date back to the mid-19th century, when Korean refugees immigrated into the northern bank of Tuman River and began the cultivation of land. They demonstrate emigration culture, farming culture and the formation process of the Korean ethnic group.

Village of Korean ethnic group